Use Case DC4 - Ecologist Mine Studies

Olga studies the recovery of ecosystems in abandoned mine
lands in Appalachia. She has 30 years of data that she has collected herself. Every 5-10 years she publishes a long summary
paper about her study site. Her data are
kept in a relational database that is not web accessible. In the past she has shared her data with
students and close colleagues only. She
is reluctant to share her data, which is now extremely valuable and has earned
her several research grants. She might
be persuaded to share parts of her data set if she had control over who used
her data and was included as an author in any subsequent publications. Olga realizes that her species observations
would be valuable for researchers outside her field (and thus not her
competitors) and would be willing to upload the data if it could be done with
minimal time investment. However, she is
not a taxonomist, so some of the names she uses might be out of date.